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Also known as a "buzz job," this is when a pilot, or someone who can fly somehow, makes a fast pass very low to the ground or close to a target with the intent to startle or frighten. This is generally very dangerous; planes are meant to be in the sky, where pilots have room to take action if something should go wrong. Low altitude means there is less time to do something in the event of emergency, and in this case the ground is at times less than a second away. Also, the lower you are, the more likely there are to be obstacles sticking up from the ground at which point a Belly-Scraping Flight (at best) or crash becomes more likely. So while this can be Truth in Television, Buzzing The Deck in Real Life (presuming you don't crash) will likely get you Reassigned to Antarctica. There are usually a couple of reasons why someone would do this: Ace Pilots showing off their Improbable Piloting Skills. A Military Maverick who always breaks the rules and pushes boundaries. An Appeal to Force against unfriendly forces to scare them without actually shooting at them. The original purpose was for an air traffic controller to inspect the airplane’s undercarriage for damage and advise the pilot on a safe landing procedure. This was necessary in the early days of aviation when there were no cockpit warning lights. The effects on the ground are dramatic. Planes are loud, and one flying right overhead is enough to make most people jump, and perhaps duck. When traveling at speed, they can be on top of you before you hear them coming. Add to that the dread of having what's subconsciously interpreted as a gigantic projectile coming your way, and you get the idea. A pilot can also do this in flight to another aircraft by flying very close past it (this is dangerous not only for the above reasons, but because the backwash from the accelerated air can disrupt the other plane's engines, potentially causing a crash). Compare Wronski Feint, which is an even riskier move to get an enemy to fly into the ground or other obstacle, and Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure for when a low pass is to attack a target on the ground. Not to be confused with a Traumatic Haircut, which is sometimes called a "buzz cut" (or "buzz job"). |
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Star Trek Online. Episode "Cardassian Struggle", mission "Rapier". After exiting the Bajoran wormhole you can buzz Ops on Deep Space 9. This grants an accolade titled "That's a Negative Ghost Rider, The Pattern Is Full". | |
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In Mutant Storm, the X-Men (Jean Grey, Cyclops, Beast and Wolverine) are trying to get into a Death Eater safehouse, which has two of Voldemort's Horcruxes, the snake included. Harry, who is piloting the Blackbird, suggests buzzing them with a low level pass at supersonic speed. And it works beautifully (the house is left with all windows broken, the roof burning and the front as if sandblasted). Rogue then uses the second Blackbird to do the same on the Death Eaters that are attacking Hogwarts. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: After finding that the Millenium Falcon's hyperdrive is still inoperable, Han Solo turns around and flies right at the Star Destroyer chasing them, buzzing the ship's bridge, making the captain and first officer duck, and then disappearing (actually clamping onto the back of the ship's command tower). | |
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TaleSpin. Baloo is known to do this literally, using his propeller to trim hedges at times, as seen in the show's opening, upside-down, no less. Baloo got buzzed himself once in flight and was not happy about it, especially when he found out who he'd just been buzzed by, Ace London. |
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While Tom Cat is joyriding on the witch's broom in the Tom and Jerry cartoon "The Flying Sorceress", he flies past the window of the house where Jerry is contentedly eating a hunk of cheese. Tom's first buzz causes Jerry to blink, but dismiss the sight as an aberration. Tom's second buzz causes Jerry to discard his cheese as "bad." | |
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Andor: On Aldhani, TIE Fighter pilots are known to pilot their TI Es low to the ground to disturb and harass the local indigenous population. One of them even buzzes Cassian Andor and the Aldhani crew when they are simply minding their own business. | |
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Cannon: In "A Flight of Hawks", Woodman, the leader of a band of Private Military Contractors, repeatedly buzzes Belmont's jeep as as he is trying to escape the compound; eventually forcing him of the road. | |
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From the Jack Ryan series: In The Hunt for Red October, a flight of A-10s buzz (and drop flares around) a Soviet cruiser to remind the Soviets that they were a long way from both home and any serious hope of support if they didn't take a step back. In Executive Orders, US B-1 bombers buzz an Indian aircraft carrier at near-supersonic speeds, causing damage to the superstructure of some Indian Navy warships, as a warning to their Prime Minister that she's playing with fire in her dealings with Iran and China in opposition to the US. Outside the series, in Red Storm Rising Major Amelia Nakamura does this after making ace. |
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He even does this multiple times in the sequel, whether it be flying an experimental jet over the vehicle of the Admiral tasked with shutting down his team's test program, or spooking off his students by flying his F/A-18E Super Hornet right in between theirs during their dogfighting exercise. He does get to buzz the tower at the end of the movie, with the F-14 Tomcat he and his co-pilot stole from the enemy. | |
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One of the few black marks on Honor Harrington's record as a cadet came from an incident where she buzzed the Commodore's yacht during the annual academy regatta. | |
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The MythBusters' attempts to shatter glass with a sonic boom culminated with Adam going up with one of the Blue Angels and, after being taken on a wild thrill ride, making a series of supersonic passes over a shed they'd set up in the desert with a glass window, each one lower than the last. After a number of passes at a reasonable altitude, Adam was dropped off and the pilot went back up to make another series at a dangerously low level. They did finally get the glass to break, but the plane was practically flying on the deck at that point. | |
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In the Thomas & Friends fifth season episode "Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday", a reckless biplane called Tiger Moth does this when Sir Topham Hatt and his family are visiting an airfield, startling them. A few days later, Tiger Moth fumbles the same stunt and crashes into a haystack, and while he and his pilot are unhurt, they're grounded as punishment. | |
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Captains of the Clouds (1942). In revenge for being washed out, James Cagney's character does this in a bush plane, interrupting an Air Marshall as he gives a graduation speech to the pilots. However, his wingman blacks out during the stunt and is killed. | |
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The second and third Saints Row games have Barnstorming, which requires you to pilot an aerial vehicle over, through, or underneath specific landmarks. The achievement for completing all fifty Barnstorms in Saints Row 2 is called Maverick Goose. | |
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When a Japanese plane does a low flight over Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora!, one officer thinks it's just a reckless pilot and plans to report him. Then a bomb explodes and everyone realizes what's really happening. | |
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Thirteen Days A pair of fighter jets are seen buzzing a Soviet freighter that made it past the Naval Blockade around Cuba. Played for drama when Navy fighters are making low-altitude photo recon passes over Cuba. As they can't admit that anyone shot at them because it could lead to World War Three breaking out, the planes come back riddled with holes that allegedly came from flying through a flock of birds. |
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The Final Countdown: After the USS Nimitz gets thrown back to 1941, a pair of Tomcats start "playing with" a pair of Zeros, starting with speeding by them so close the Japanese planes are thrown around by their wakes. | |
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In the 1995 HBO movie The Tuskegee Airmen, an airman is discharged for this, and commits suicide as a result. | |
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Sort of in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, as Lt. Lawson isn't trying to scare anybody with his B-25 bomber. But he does fly it under the San Francisco Bay Bridge on a dare. | |
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Batman: Vengeance has the Batwing do this while chasing Mr. Freeze's helicopter. Batman has to fly very, very low to the ground through Gotham's expressways on an incredibly busy night. | |
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War of the Worlds: Goliath. A.R.E.S. pilot Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) flies his jet-assisted triplane alongside the elevated train that Eric Wells is traveling in. Eric thinks he's a show-off, but can't help smiling. | |
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The Peanuts Movie: The Red Baron buzzes Flying Ace Snoopy's root beer party, leaving his face covered in root beer foam. | |
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In Banco, Papillon's Ace Pilot friend Carotte gets revenge for being tossed out of a brothel by dive bombing the place so that the cheap roofing gets ripped off in his wake, exposing the whores and their clients. Another time he banks the plane dangerously low just to scare a woman using her garden as a toilet. | |
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In This Island Earth, Cal buzzes the flight tower, which ends up causing a flame out, leading to his first encounter with the aliens. When this scene shows up in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, Crow promptly responds to the buzzing scene with "MAVERICK!"... with Tom Servo following that up with air sickness. | |
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Outside the series, in Red Storm Rising Major Amelia Nakamura does this after making ace. | |
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Mass Effect 3: During "Priority: Eden Prime", Cerberus forces announce themselves with a Kodiak shuttle buzzing Shepard's team before dropping troops nearby. | |
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For All Mankind A couple of fighters do a low flypast of the Saturn V. Given the rocket's height this is not strictly a version of this trope, but as those below are standing on top of the Saturn's launch elevator it makes them duck anyway. Wernher von Braun gripes, "Pilots! We should have stuck with the monkeys." In the following episode, one of the astronauts and his wingman buzzes his own house on flying back from Florida. His wife doesn't react except to say, "Boys, your daddy's home." |
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Orks are well known for this; it's how they land (landing gear is for sissies). Deff Skwadron takes this a little further than most: When their entire skwadron is undergoing maintenance when they're needed in a fight, they simply turn the planes into impromptu jetbikes. | |
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The Red Baron begins with Richtofen and his wing buzzing the funeral of a British pilot so he could drop a memorial wreath. | |
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In Three Strikes, while missing a wing, Trigger makes it back to the 444th base and decides that if she is going to crash, she might as well go out in style, so she buzzes the tower. She is able to land and gets an earful from the control tower. McKinsey just adds this as another reason to throw her into solitary confinement with the others despite having followed orders to the letter in the last mission. | |
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In the opening scene of The Rocketeer Cliff buzzes a road which happens to have a shooting chase between mobsters and the police. One of the mobsters sees the plane and shoots at it, damaging its engine and controls. | |
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Discussed by Colonel Potter in the M*A*S*H episode Smilin' Jack. While they are attempting to recall the title character from a potential suicide mission, Colonel Potter talks about a fighter pilot in World War I named Duncan McShane whose exploits include barnstorming the squadron's open hangar, twice. | |
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At the end of *batteries not included, Harry has Little Guy and won't let him go, and the parents keep zipping over their heads until he does. | |
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Dumbo ends with him showing off his new abilities by flying low over the heads of everyone who exploited, harassed, and made fun of him. | |
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If you want to know who was buzzing the tower in Top Gun, it was this guy, Scott Altman, Navy Captain and astronaut. He noted in an interview once that buzzing a control tower would usually cost a pilot his wings, but since the director wanted nine different takes of that scene, he got to buzz the tower nine times! | |
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Kerbal Space Program players love to buzz the space center's control tower. It's cool when done with a fighter jet, awesome when done with a hypersonic space plane and absolutely hilarious when done with a 100 meter tall 3-stage rocket. | |
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Buck Danny: In one episode set during the Korean War, a South Korean pilot does this upside down in full view of senior officers before landing safely but walking drunkenly, to the concern of his friends in the American squadron. It turns out the North Koreans are holding his family hostage, and have threatened to kill them if he doesn't obey their orders. He pulled the stunt so as to be barred from flying , but the spies figure out his plan and force him to betray the Americans. As usual for the series, it ends with Redemption Equals Death. | |
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Catch-22. One of the side-character pilots likes to do this over the beach near their airbase where people relax and fraternize while off-duty, flying very low over the water and the floating dock/rafts they have set up. Various people find it either amusing or annoying, until the day one of their buddies leaps up from the dock at just the wrong moment (trying to touch the belly of the plane as it passed) and gets the top half of him shredded by one of the propeller engines. This incident is but one among many that help push the protagonist, Yossarian, into near insanity. | |
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Game of Thrones. When Jon Snow and Davos Seaworth turn up to negotiate with Queen Daenerys, one of her dragons pulls the fantasy version of this trope, swooping so low over Jon and Davos that they fling themselves to the ground in alarm. | |
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Weaponized in In the Service, where the shockwave of a fifteen-thousand-ton starship moving at supersonic speeds close to the ground is powerful enough to throw people through the air and break bones as it knocks them down, in addition to breaking every eardrum for kilometers. While less thoroughly destructive than the use of the ship's guns, it works over a larger area and does so more quickly. | |
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In The Mysterious Cities of Gold, since the Golden Condor aircraft is unarmed, the heroes generally use this tactic by flying low and disrupting enemy forces with the updraft. Being made of Orichalcum, the Condor itself never takes damage when doing so. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Orks are well known for this; it's how they land (landing gear is for sissies). Deff Skwadron takes this a little further than most: When their entire skwadron is undergoing maintenance when they're needed in a fight, they simply turn the planes into impromptu jetbikes. Any aircraft model actually deployed on the board is doing this. Even dive-bombers would normally only spend a very short time so close to their targets, and most aircraft are at least partly fighters or even spaceships. Being so low and slow that they can be represented on the board and shot at by ground troops is extremely unusual. Obviously this is a case where Rule of Cool overrides the lore, since otherwise players wouldn't get to play with their cool planes. Ace pilots in the Gaiden Game Aeronautica Imperialis have a chance of surviving and continuing to fly in situations where they'd normally crash, including attempting to fly at altitude 0 (which normally indicates than a plane has hit the ground and died). |
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The Great Raid: Used as a way of distracting the guards while Allied forces got into position. | |
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Guard of Honor: Gen. Beal, commander of an Army Air Force base in 1943 Florida, shows his racism when he tells a story about how one of his men "buzzed the n***r picnic" and scared some "colored women." He can't help but be proud of his pilot's skill. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Secret of my Excess", the Wonderbolts do this to an out-of-control Spike. This gives him a buzzcut. Used in "Newbie Dash" as part of the Wonderbolts airshow. |
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Janes USAF: In this game, your flight instructor makes you buzz an ATC tower. And he will end the mission only when you buzz it to his satisfaction. | |
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Captain Charlie Stark in Wake Me When It's Over. He is first introduced by buzzing his own outpost, and Lieutenant McKay indicates that this is the reason for his stifled Air Force career (he buzzed the Supreme Court!). His arrival to Gus's court martial is hailed by doing this twice, bailing out the second time. | |
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The Great Waldo Pepper: The German ace Ernst Kessler starts his air performance with an upside down low pass that causes the announcer to fall over. Later after Ezra crashes, Waldo, furious at the crowds who came to gawk but did nothing to help, gets in a plane and starts buzzing them to drive them away from the wreckage. | |
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Aladdin: While the Sultan is flying the magic carpet around, he at one point flies quickly over Aladdin and Jafar, causing both of them to duck as he does. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. In 2nd Gig an American Empire nuclear submarine launches a nuclear missile that's destroyed before it hits the target. The Americans are wondering if they should fire again when two advanced Japanese fighters fly (sideways!) on either side of their conning tower. Getting the message, the Americans stand down. | |
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The Rigel Black Chronicles: Harry and Archie have been flying together since they were four years old, and they make a game of diving as close as possible to the ground and snatching an item as they pull up. When they try it in the summer before third year, Archie presents a handful of dandelions, while Harry has gone one better and picked up a bottle cap from the ground. | |
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In Star Carrier: Earth Strike, a group of Starhawks make a low-altitude, high-speed pass over the airstrip at the Marine base on Haris, using the noise from their sonic booms and from firing their particle beams at a far-off hilltop to quell a riot. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett: After acquiring a shiny new N-1 Starfighter, Din Djarin takes it for a test flight through Beggar's Canyon, then takes it up into space and ends up flying alongside a commercial starliner passing Tatooine. Unfortunately, it turns out getting that close to other ships is illegal, and Din is quickly apprehended by a pair of New Republic X-Wings patrolling the area. | |
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Midsomer Murders: Done with murderous intent in "The Flying Club". The murderer is flying a light plane and chases the second Victim of the Week, who is on the ground. The murderer buzzes him low enough to strike his head with the landing gear of the plane, killing him. During the Motive Rant at the end, Barnaby acknowledges it was an exceptional piece of flying. | |
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Spaceballs. Lone Star uses his spaceship to buzz the chapel where Princess Vespa is about to have an Arranged Marriage, as his Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace. | |
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One of the hidden aces in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown can only be spawned by flying along a kilometers-long electromagnetic mass accelerator rail at very low altitude, while under enemy fire from all directions and with a tight invisible time limit ticking in the background. It's one of the most difficult ace spawn conditions to fulfill regardless of what control scheme you prefer, and also one of the most frustrating because you don't know if you got it right until the ace appears (or not) much later in the mission. | |
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In The Little Mermaid (1989) as part of the attempt to crash the wedding and buy time for Ariel, Scuttle gets a bunch of seagulls to buzz Vanessa. | |
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This by WWII Japanese fighter ace Saburo Sakai, from his Wikipedia page: | |
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